Superstar From Age 0
Chapter 142

Chapter 142

“Tul Natra’s patience had worn out over the course of a hundred years, and when he saw the man who used the shadows, he snapped the last thread that was holding him back.”

“…Why?”

“Because the shadows that the man used were Natra’s own. And Natra’s shadows could be inherited.”

“Inherited?”

Mack tilted his head. 

The black shadow under his feet shrank its body. 

The partner’s movement was transmitted to Mack.

“It means that the upper person plants a seed in the lower person’s shadow. The lower person can use the shadow only when the seed sprouts. After inheriting, the upper person’s shadow becomes weaker. That’s why it’s usually done only between family or very close friends. So Tul Natra thought.”

Bel Natra looked at the black sky and spoke.

“Those kidnappers had no reason to inherit to my son, so the man who used those shadows must be the kidnapper.”

“…”

“I have to catch him, and find my son.”

Mack let out a sigh.

The fight became fierce. 

Bel Natra recalled.

“I realized it as I fought with the man. 

The man had a better shadow than the two candidates. 

When I saw that, I thought of ‘forced inheritance’.”

“…Forced inheritance?”

“…It means devouring a weak shadow. Completely. The owner of the shadow that was forcibly inherited dies in agony. There was a fight between the two candidates, and I thought one of them had forcibly inherited, but the man was too strong. It should have been 1 plus 1 equals 2… But it looked like 3 or 4. So we thought.”

Tul Natra lost his reason.

“My child was forcibly inherited… My son… My brother is no longer in this world.”

And.

That day, that moment, Bel Natra’s voice filled with despair and sorrow was heard clearly by the audience. 

Mack opened his mouth.

“But…”

“Yes. You’re alive. Who would have thought, that a shadow would have a self.”

“A self?”

“Natra’s shadows are originally weapons. They have no thoughts or wills, just like swords or guns. But what about your shadow?”

Mack looked down at his feet. 

His shadow was playing by itself, regardless of the two Natras who were having a serious conversation. 

It was playing with the shadow play that Greenwing taught him. 

Bel Natra looked at his shadow with disdain.

“Your shadow had a self and escaped from the kidnapper’s body before dying, and entered the nearest Natra’s shadow, which was yours.”

Mack remembered what the orphanage director told him when he became an adult. 

The people who looked like Mack’s parents who died in an accident, and baby Mack who was crying between them.

‘A better shadow than the two candidates. A shadow that could be used without inheriting. And a shadow with a self.’

Mack looked at his partner. 

The shadow that had been with him for a long time flinched at his gaze.

The black shadow that was once the kidnapper’s and now Mack’s was glared at by Bel Natra, who continued to speak.

“We didn’t think of that possibility at all. A self in a shadow was an old story that only appeared in fairy tales. I only found out after I saw your shadow in the park and searched through the library. I was sure after today’s battle.”

A misunderstanding piled up on another misunderstanding, and the father who lost his son lost his reason. 

He committed an unforgivable act.

“Tul Natra created an anomaly wormhole.”

The strongest and worst weapon that even Natra who created it didn’t know where it led to. 

The anomaly wormholes that appeared all over the world caused many victims and disappeared.

“Tul Natra went berserk after finding out the truth after waiting for a hundred years, and collapsed. In the meantime, Shadowman attacked and Natra had no choice but to go back. A while later, they found a child on Natra planet, in the ice desert.”

A child.

Mack’s eyes sank heavily.

“That kid…”

“Yes. It was Jin Natra. A very cute kid who was holding a teddy bear. Someone found him dying with a pale complexion, and the child who was not a Natra was sent to the king. Tul Natra, who was in shock after losing his son, took him as his own son. The kid had lost his memory, and all he remembered was,”

Bel Natra paused for a moment.

“Only ‘William’.”

“William…”

Mack buried his face in both hands. William.

“After that, he grew up as the king’s son. His father loved Jin dearly. He visited him even when he was busy and taught him how to inherit and use shadows even though he wasn’t a Natra. I liked Jin too. He was a smart, kind, and diligent kid. I couldn’t help but love him.”

Bel Natra smiled faintly.

“Jin was very good at handling shadows. I couldn’t do that at his age. Jin probably thought he was ordinary, but that’s natural. He was still a child then. It’s only natural that there was a difference between him and the grown-up candidates. But that was his poison. The more Jin stood out, the more enemies he had.”

“…Why did you make William a candidate?”

William.

Bel Natra sneered at Mack’s words. The kid who was William to Mack was Jin to him.

“Because he was Tul Natra’s son. The king’s children automatically become candidates. To avoid becoming a candidate, you have to renounce your status, but Jin refused. He wanted to be his father’s son.”

The audience remembered the little boy who smiled brightly and cried for his ‘mom and dad’ with a scornful laugh.

“So I…”

Bel Natra closed his eyes tightly. 

His two fists clenched hard shook. 

He shouldn’t have done that…

“I decided to send Jin back to Earth.”

“What?”

“I was stupid. I didn’t know how many countries or people there were on Earth, and I thought he would find his family on his own if I left him here. And I didn’t pay attention to the fact that Jin had grown up a lot since then.”

Natra was a single planet, a single nation. 

And Natra had the Time Stone. 

The time of the body was not something they had to consider. 

But Earth was different.

“So…”

Mack remembered the boy who was alone in the reservoir.

“Yes. That’s why Jin was there alone at that time. That smart guy must have figured it out soon. That I wouldn’t come back.”

Well.

Mack recalled the boy at that time.

‘My family said they would come.’

The boy who said that was really waiting for his family. He wasn’t anxious, he just thought they would come soon. When will my sister come? He seemed to think, calmly.

The boy was waiting for Bel Natra to come back, alone.

Mack opened his mouth.

“Why did you come back?”

“…Because he was my brother.”

That fact stopped Bel Natra from leaving Earth. He hurried back to Jin.

‘In the end, I was late, but…’

Bel Natra sighed deeply, remembering Jin Natra who had learned everything. 

In Natra’s time, five years had passed, and Jin Natra was sinking into darkness. 

He wanted to make his suffering brother happy.

Bel Natra looked at Mack. 

This man was also his brother. 

The man who hadn’t slept for days and nights to save Redbone, with a haggard face. 

He was far from the cute Jin Natra. 

Bel Natra’s eyes narrowed.

“You’re also my brother, but you’ve grown up too grossly.”

“…What?”

“Your name is Muel Natra. It’s a name that father thought hard and gave you.”

“…Muel Natra.”

Mack repeated his name. 

Muel Natra. 

It was awkward but amazing, and made his heart beat faster. 

The name that his parents gave him, who he thought he didn’t have, who he thought had abandoned him.

But Mack couldn’t be happy sincerely, because there were many people who were sad because of him and his family.

When Bel Natra used the Red Time Stone, Redbone’s body went back to a year and a month ago. 

He cured the poison and restored Redbone’s health, and caught the spies and the organization that poisoned Redbone, and finally eliminated them completely.

“Thank you. You didn’t have to help me this far.”

“It’s my brother’s business.”

Was he talking about Jin Natra?

But Bel Natra’s gaze was directed at Mack, 

Muel Natra. 

Mack stopped breathing at that gaze. 

The years he had lived with blood and sweat. 

He finally had a family, but that… It was a being that made everyone unhappy. 

What should I do?

“I’ll go back now. The Red Stone is smaller than I thought, so I think I need to look for other places too.”

“Take this too. We don’t need it anymore.”

Greenwing threw a pouch containing Time Stones. 

They were small pieces that didn’t even last a year, but they were better than nothing. 

Bel Natra smiled.

“Thank you for saving me. Bel Natra.”

“Don’t mention it.”

Bel Natra shook hands with Redbone who had become younger by a month and looked at Shadowman.

“Thank you. See you later. Muel.”

“…”

What should I do?

Mack couldn’t say anything to his family’s farewell. 

He was full of worries. 

Bel Natra got on the spaceship with a bitter smile.

“Let’s have a family reunion with father and Jin next time!”

Bel Natra’s spaceship disappeared into the sky.

Shadowman stared blankly at the spaceship that disappeared. 

Redbone patted Shadowman’s shoulder, and Greenwing started playing with Shadowman’s shadow. 

The other heroes chatted loudly and went inside the base.

Shadowman smiled. 

It was the end of an ordinary day.

The ending credits slowly rose on the black screen.

The lights in the theater did not turn on, and the audience waited for the cookie video with their hearts pounding.

Park Seong-won also stared blankly at the screen. 

Even until he entered the theater, there were many rumors about this cookie video, that it was a trailer for another movie, or a trailer for Shadowman 3, but Park Seong-won, the audience knew.

‘This is…’

The ending credits that were rising up stopped. Everyone swallowed their saliva.

Boom-

Boom-

A music that made their spines chill sounded. 

They unconsciously tensed their bodies. Park Seong-won could only look at the screen without moving.

Boom boom-

It was Jin Natra’s OST.

In a dark room, moonlight shone through a large window.

The camera moved slowly following the moonlight and showed a man lying on a large bed.

Before they could be surprised by the face of the man they didn’t expect to see here, a boy who was hidden by the shadow of the bedpost appeared.

“Father.”

The boy who was looking at the pale man on the bed knelt down and held his hand. The boy’s eyes sank deeply.

“Just like you did…”

The boy held his hand tightly. 

It was a hand that always held him gently, without saying anything. 

It was also a hand that made his life miserable.

“I want to destroy all your happiness too.”

The fingers of Tul Natra, who was held by the boy, twitched. 

The boy felt that movement and closed his eyes slowly and opened them again. 

They were firm and cold eyes that let nothing in.

“So, give me everything.”

The boy slowly got up from the floor. 

The two hands that were holding each other fell weakly.

The shadow under the boy’s feet, Jin Natra’s shadow, moved slowly according to Jin Natra’s will.

“Your country too.”

The flag of Natra that was hanging on the wall was swallowed by the black shadow.

“Your position too.”

The king’s bedroom was slowly engulfed by the dark and deep shadow.

“Your power too.”

The black shadow that had been eroding from all sides of the bed approached Tul Natra who was lying on the bed.

Tul Natra’s shadow writhed as if to resist the black shadow that surrounded him like a siege.

“Everything.”

The black shadow covered Tul Natra.

Boom!

Boom!

The screen showed the wriggling black shadow and Jin Natra’s back, and then turned pitch black.

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